U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu is reflected in a glass-topped table during a forum with news media reporters about President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment plan February 19, 2009 in Washington, DC. Tapped by President Obama to lead the Energy Department, Chu won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 and would also be the first person appointed to the Cabinet after having won the prize. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty.
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